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Visions were important to ALL Indians.· Visions were a way of connecting with the spirits and the one Great Spirit.· The medicine interpret each vision.…read more

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Girls· Females were thought to be able to easily contact spirits via their period.· Girls were taught to control the spirits before they controlled her.· They were taught by the older women of the tribe.· She then received her adult name.…read more

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Boys· Boys had to find there vision.· They cleaned and fasted to prepare for it.· After he received his vision he went back to the tribe where the medicine man would interpret it.· He is then given his adult name.…read more